Crossword-Solution: DIPHTHONG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diphthong | n. | A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong. |
| Diphthong | n. | A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong. |
| Diphthong | v. t. | To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “DIPHTHONG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Oy" or "ow" | 1 answer |
| A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable | 1 answer |
| Complex vowel sound | 1 answer |
| DIGRAPH | 1 answer |
| Ou, for example. | 1 answer |
| Two vowels pronounced as one syllable | 1 answer |
| Two-vowel sound | 1 answer |
| Vowel sound that changes within a single syllable | 1 answer |
| union of two vowel sounds in a single compound sound | 1 answer |
| Speech sound | 33 answers |
| fracture | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIPHTHONG (5)
The word _febris_ was printed with the diphthong , so Stephens excused himself by saying in the errata that ``le chalcographe a fait une fivre longue (fbrem) quoique une fivre courte (febrem) soit moins dangereux.'' Allusion has already been made in the first chapter to Professor Skeat's ghost words.
Thus, if I wish the diphthong _ou_ to have its proper value, I may write _oor_ instead of _our_; many have done so and lived, and the pillars of the universe remained unshaken.
The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.
Philostorgius, who saw those objects through a different medium, is inclined to forget the difference of the important diphthong.
For, not to speak of the illusion which the sight of a Greek type, or the sound of a Greek diphthong, often produces, there are some peculiarities in the manner of Thucydides which in no small degree have tended to secure to him the reputation of profundity.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1956–2020).